Re: Weird error

No, it was deadlocked.  Neither vacuum nor my program were doing
anything.

Alex Pilosov wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
>
> > Alex Pilosov wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > This is definitely FALSE. Vacuum does not lock the database, it acquires
> > > certain locks while its vacuuming certain tables. I.E. your clients may
> > > not be able to modify table while its being vacuumed.
> > >
> > I've had a vacuum deadlock my database.  When I killed the vacuum client
> > (^C from the command line) my program  continued.
>
> Are you sure you mean 'deadlock'? Deadlock is when neither client nor
> vacuum can proceed. What most likely happened is vacuum locking the table
> until its done, and that is a normal behavior.
>
> -alex
>
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